AuldRocker

Ken, The hard drive was frozen! It does not show in Diskmanagement. Tried a different usb port and the adapter is working fine. Tried it with my partners laptop HD. I noticed that after it showed up on the desktop setup menu, the PC wouldn't boot! I disconnected the rogue drive and my desktop booted as normal.

Hi Ken, Did what you suggested but no luck. The drive is not being recognized. However, when I re-booted my desktop and went into the setup menu, the drive was recognized there. Not on windows explorer though.

Thanks for the reply, KenB. No, it doesn't show anywhere, i.e. it is not recognized. I've tried disk management and it doesn't show there either.

Hi. I have a similar problem. The hard drive on my Acer laptop seems to have given up. It's a Western Digital Scorpio drive with 250Gb and it was running Windows Vista. I've tried connecting it to my desktop using a 2.5 inch SATA to USB adapter which is running Windows 7 Ultimate but when connected, my desktop slows down temporarily then reports that the laptop HD is not available. So I can't gain access to the drive. My desktop has a Pentium 4 3.0GHz and 4Gb RAM. Is there anything I can do to get my desktop to recognise the 2.5" drive?